Ivan (John) Jaworsky is Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo (retired in 2018). His research interests include dissent and its legacies in the Soviet Union and its successor states, regional issues and inter-ethnic relations in Ukraine, civil-military relations in Ukraine, and the politics of ethnicity in Canada. Between 2000 and 2010 he was […]
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Dr. Tom Deligiannis is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. His research focuses on the peace and conflict implications of human pressure on the natural environment, particularly qualitative research linking environmental change and violent conflict. Tom received his PhD from the Department of Political Science, University
M. Tamer Özsu is a University Professor of Computer Science at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science of the University of Waterloo where he holds a Cheriton Faculty Fellowship. He also holds a Distinguished Visiting Professor position at Tsinghua University. He is the Founding Director of Waterloo-Huawei Joint Innovation Laboratory since 2018. His
Dr. Igor Linkov is Senior Science and Technology Manager with the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), and Adjunct Professor with Carnegie Mellon University. He develops methods and tools for measuring risk and resilience in interconnected networks and applies these tools to critical infrastructure, transportation, energy and cyber systems, supply chains and currently
Helena Shilomboleni is an Assistant Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability and the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. She is also a Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo. Her research areas of expertise are agriculture and food security, climate smart agriculture, scaling
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Wesley Wark is an expert on national security and intelligence issues, in both a Canadian and international context. He is a senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, in Waterloo, where he co-directed a major project on Canadian National Security Strategy. He is co-author of the CIGI special report, “Reimagining a Canadian National
In 1993 Malcolm McCulloch moved to Oxford University to start up the Electrical Power Group. Climate change and social inequity are the big challenges facing our civilisation on its path to a sustainable future. The group’s focus is to develop thought leadership and to research and commercialise sustainable energy technologies. The group’s ethos is to
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Dr. Vijay Ganesh is a professor of computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining GeorgiaTech in 2023, Vijay was a professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada from 2012 to 2023 and a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2012. Vijay completed his PhD in computer
Tejas Rao is currently Manager at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, a Research Assistant with the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, and a PhD Candidate at the Deparment of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, where he is a Nehru Trust Scholar. His research examines narratives and the political economy of international law-making, with
Greg Giokas, BA (German and French), Université Laval, 1981; MA (International Affairs), Carleton University, 1984, served the federal government for 31 years. His extensive experience includes work on Parliament Hill, at the Canadian International Development Agency, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. During his career, Mr. Giokas has led the
Izabela Steflja is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU). Prior to joining WLU, Dr. Steflja was a Professor of Practice in International Development and Political Science at Tulane University (2016–2021). Dr. Steflja has conducted years of ethnographic fieldwork in post-conflict countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya, Serbia, and
Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy, Deputy Head, and Director of Research in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His research interests lie at the interface of comparative and international political economy. He recently held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled ‘The OBR and the
